Owls

WELCOME

Welcome to our class page where we share all the exciting things we do in and out of class.

Eyam Book Day!

February 2019

We had a fantastic day celebrating ‘Eyam Book Day’ dressed up as our favourite book characters. Also, we were lucky to have a visit from author Angela Cottle who inspired us to have a go at writing our own poems, stories and reports all linked to the theme of water. Children are encouraged to type their work up at home, as there is the opportunity to have their work published as part of a young writer’s competition. Further details will follow in a letter that will be sent home.

Have a look at our amazing outfits!

Fairytales

January 2019

Welcome back, and a Happy New Year!

We have had a brilliant start to the new term in Owl Class. We have been reading Fairytales and have even had the opportunity to write our own, with a twist! Also, we have been designing and baking ginger bread men just like the little old lady and little old man in the ‘Ginger Bread Man’. Here are some pictures of us at work.

Spring 1

This term our topic is ‘Fairytales and Myths’. Click here to view our Fairytales and Myths Topic Web to have a look at what we will be learning about!

Christmas

December 2018

This month we have been busy getting ready for Christmas. Merry Christmas from us all in Owl Class!

Our Trip to Manchester

We had a fantastic day in Manchester. Whilst we were there, we were able to go on a tour of the city allowing us to see lots of different places including Manchester Victoria Train Station, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester University Library, the Christmas Markets, the Peoples History Museum and even got to walk across the glass bridge and see out across Manchester.

Mrs Ridgeway worked out that we walked over 6 miles on the day!

Have a look at our pictures to see what we got up to!

Autumn 2

This half term our topic is ‘Magnificent Manchester’.

Click here to have a look at our topic web to see exactly what we will be learning about!

Singing

Over the last half-term we have been singing with Mr Tinker on a Tuesday afternoon. Last week we performed for Hedgehogs and some of our parents. We have had lots of fun learning new songs, especially Funky Chicken!

Thank you Mr Tinker.

Our Finished Victorian Toys!

The Big Reveal!

This week we had the exciting opening of our outdoor area!

Memory Games

In Owl Class we have been playing a range of games to help us develop our memory skills.

Teeth

This week in our science lesson we have been learning about our teeth and their functions. We enjoyed modelling clay to mould our own teeth.

It was clear that we had some budding dentists and sculptors amongst us!

The Victorians

In topic lessons we have been learning about The Victorian era. We have been researching what toys Victorian children would have played with and have had fun playing with and making replicas of the Victorian toys.

We are currently designing our own toys and games using our design and technology skills.

Keep your eyes peeled for the final product!

The Digestive System

In science we have been learning about the digestive system. We had fun drawing around each other, labelling the digestive organs in our bodies and explaining their functions.

Welcome to Miss McGloin our new Class Teacher and all the children who are in Owl Class.

Autumn Term 1

This half term our topic is ‘The Victorians’.

Click here to have a look at our topic web to see exactly what we will be learning about!

March 2018

This term our topic is The Stone Age. Find out more by looking at our topic web.

We were very fortunate to get tickets to see the Hallé orchestra play at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The theme was nature. We listened to lots of beautiful pieces of music and had the opportunity to sing with the Hallé too!

World book day this year has been eventful, with visits from illustrator Martin Olsson and author Angela Cottle. We have also been sharing our favourite books and writing to authors and publishers.

February 2018

Owl class had a visit from PCBoswell who talked to us about road safety and from MrPoke of Bradwell bowling club who taught us how to bowl. We learnt a lot and had fun too.

January 2018

Our topic this term is about Space. Have a look at our topic web to find out more.

Our local history topic this term has been a lot of fun and we have learnt a lot from local historians and manufacturers about shoemaking now and in the past in our local community.

We visited a local shoe factory and saw how shoes are made now.

and we visited Eyam hall and learnt about boot polishing, rug making and washing day in Edwardian times. We also had a visit from a local historian who talked to us about the shoemaker’s strike in 1918.

We have our very own parents guide to encouraging motivated and independent readers – Reading Booklet 2017

Suggested reading books for Year 3

Suggested reading books for Year 4

November 2017

This year owl class are learning to play the violin. Here we are tightening our bows.

October 2017

Our topic for this half term is about shoes and shoemaking now and in the past. Take a look at our topic web to find out more.

Hello and welcome to the start of our new school year. We have only been back at school for two weeks and already so much has happened! Our new topic this half term is Africa and we will be writing to a school in Burkina Faso. In science we are learning about bones and muscles. Find out more by looking at our topic web below.

We talked about the importance of reading, wrote book reviews and made our own book marks.

Owls Class 2017-18

We have even had a visit from Valley Park School – Mr Wright’s new school. Owl class children were super guides, taking the children and their teachers around Eyam School and telling them all about it.

June 2017

This year year 3 and 4 have been learning to play the trumpet. It was our end of year concert on Thursday and we were fabulous!

This half-term Owls have been enjoying going to Forest Schools. We have taken part in lots of exciting activities such as den building and balancing on logs. We made owls out of clay and used the kelly kettle to make hot chocolate. We built a fire and toasted yummy marshmallows.

Our focus was mysterious tales. We enjoyed reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and we made a life sized Iron Man for our wall.
We had a great day with local author Caryl Hart who read us lots of her stories and gave us ideas about how to write fantastic stories of our own!

This year we have been learning to play the trumpet.

January 2017 – Happy New Year

We were learning to work as a team and be resilient during our marshmallow challenge!

PE will be Monday and Friday. Please come dressed in your PE kit on those days. You will also need to wear trainers on Thursday for our whole school run. Please remember to bring spare shoes, socks (and jogging bottoms if the grass will be wet.)

We will update it regularly to help us share the exciting things we do in and out of class!

19 April 2016 – Street Dancing

19 April 2016

Click on the link below to find out what exciting things we will be learning during this Summer term

What a busy half term it has been in Class 3! We learned all about materials and states of matter in Science, making a Harvest loaf to share in church and finding out how the yeast helped it to rise. In DT we designed and made paper mache volcanoes which we shared with Class 1, explaining how vinegar and bicarbonate of soda reacted inside to make them “erupt”!

September 2014

Welcome to a brand new term and a brand new school year! Class 3 has expanded to include Y4 and Y5 this September, and we have a beautiful new classroom, too.

This term our Topic is “Our World”, and we will be learning all about volcanoes, weather, materials and landscape art. Have a look at the Topic Web below to find out about some of the other things we will be doing- also included is a Long Term Plan, which outlines some of the other exciting learning opportunities we will have this year.

It has been a very busy term so far in Class 3. As part of our Superheroes topic we have been learning about Moving and Growing, thinking of ways to keep our super bodies healthy. We have written comic strips about our own characters, created detailed self-portraits and carried out different science experiments. We have also had one last Forest School session; great fun in the sunshine- check out our homemade catapults!

May 2014

We are all ready for the summer term in Class 3!

April 2014

This term we have been learning about the Christian story of Easter, and this week we had a lovely trip to church where we looked at the stations of the cross and reflected on the thoughts and feelings of Jesus and his desciples during this time.

March 2014

It has been an action packed week in Class 3! As well as experiencing life as a Viking warrior on Wednesday’s school trip, we have also been celebrating World Book Day by discussing our favourite stories and dressing as memorable characters.
On Fridays we study music, and at the moment we are lucky enough to have special fife lessons. Have a look at the pictures below, where we are practising whilst wearing our World Book Day costumes!

January 2014

At Forest School we have fun learning all about teamwork, co-operation and caring for our beautiful environment in the woods. Have a look at the pictures we took at a recent session, where we were playing Capture the Flag, building dens and learning to light fires safely!

January 2014

With a brand new term comes a brand new Topic- Vikings

December 2013

More fabulous news in Class 3. We returned from the holiday to find that another envelope filled with exciting things had arrived- Julia Donaldson, author of the lovely “Gruffalo” books has personally replied to Joe and Samuel!

We have had our first response from an author/publisher! The team behind Lauren Child’s lovely children’s books have written letters to Mary and Beatrice, answering some of their questions about life as an author.

We will display copies of these letters in our classroom.

October 2013

Goldswort

We have been make sustainable sculptures, using materials from the field and playground. Captions to follow!

Harvest Time…

Capturing the natural colours and textures of tasty fruit and vegetables.

As part of our Topic work on Materials, we have taken part in a whole class debate this week, arguing “for” and “against” the opening of a new quarry in Eyam.

We also really enjoyed the visit from poet Andy Tooze this week, who inspired us to write our own verse on the theme of friendship in just ten minutes.

September 2013

We have been very busy again this week. In Literacy we wrote letters to our favourite authors and illustrators.